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- Pyx with IHS Insignia in Makie and Mother-of-Pearl Inlay
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Pyx with IHS Insignia in Makie and Mother-of-Pearl Inlay
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- HK118
Photo No：226-5291
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| Title | Pyx with IHS Insignia in Makie and Mother-of-Pearl Inlay |
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| Artist | |
| Category | Lacquerware (H) |
| Country | Japan |
| Period | Momoyama |
| Century | 16th |
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| Quantity | |
| Materials | Lacquered wood with makie (sprinkled metallic powder) decoration and mother-of-pearl inlay |
| Dimensions | Diameter 11.4cm Height 9.1cm |
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Many missionaries who came to Japan during the Age of Discovery commissioned Japanese lacquer objects. This box held communion bread—“the body of Christ”—for the Catholic Eucharist. It features a Jesuit emblem with a Christogram (IHS=Jesus). This is one of only a dozen or so surviving lacquer pyxes in the world that were taken home by Europeans in the 1500s.
Japan-Momoyama